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England's Gang of Four is another example of the phenomenon. The Gang disdains the time-honored rock themes of women, booze, and the counterculture. Instead, the Gang members address weighty topics such as "social structure" and the "relations of production"--all on a purely theoretical level. The approach is slightly absurd. Not that a few committed radicals can't have some good ideas set to music, but the thought of these guitar dogmatists pounding out their Marxism so relentlessly, earnestly, and literally must have Karl rolling in his grave...
...also has rock fans dancing in the aisles and that's the bottom line for the Gang and almost every other good band. It's something the Gang has kept in mind, no matter how didactic their first two albums sounded...
...dictum, as their latest, Songs of the Free clearly demonstrates. From the opening stanzas of "Call Me Up." with lead singer Jon King's observation that. "We're consumed by competition," through the queries in "Of the Instant." "Who owns what you do? Who owns that you use?" the Gang maintains a steady stream of class and social analysis. Yet it is woven into music so original and infectious that it makes you forget about the revolution the Gang wanted to start in the first place. The album is one punk-funky dance number after another...
...Love a Man in a Uniform," an undisguised satire of militarism, and "We Live as We Dream Alone," a most bleak outlook on individuals within society "It Is Not Enough" is an animalistic attack on western sexual mores from both the man and woman's point of view. (The Gang, by the was recently solved its long-brewing bassist problem with the addition of the multi-talented Sara Lee hurray for coeducation in rock!) The biting "The History of the World" is a disguised condemnation of imperialism and the album's underdog success. "When I was in my mother...
Persuading Israel to deal with the P.L.O. as currently constituted could be still more difficult. Begin regards the P.L.O. as a terrorist gang bent on Israel's extermination; it will take more than words to change that opinion. Indeed, his government launched the invasion of Lebanon largely to destroy the P.L.O. as a force in Middle East politics. Seeing the organization emerge from the wreckage of Beirut with new respectability would thus, in Jerusalem's view, amount to letting a brilliant military victory turn into a galling political defeat. There is a worldwide suspicion, too, that Begin...